Myths and facts about nicotine

Fact: Nicotine arouses smoking addiction. Each smoker who tried to quit smoking can tell after own experience how difficult is without cigarettes during long period of time. They permanently and bitterly want to smoke, feel giddy, don't have disposition, have sleepiness during the day, are in abeyance and have feeling of being exhausted, their sensitivity increases what is reflected on annoyance. Smoker can even not imagine that in his organism in the moment of smoking cessation a real rebellion and revolution take place - as organism, feeling a surge of energy and lack of the further dose begins to clear itself from chemical poison of cigarettes.

During longstanding history of smoking because of mass use of TV and mass media, humanity was taken captive of many myths and stereotypes about nicotine and its influence on smokers and not smokers.

Myth: Nicotine is reason of cancer appearance.

Fact: Nicotine doesn't arouse cancer.

The real reason of different diseases appearance, among which is cancer and heart weakness are tar, carbon monoxide and other toxicants that tobacco smoke contains. By the way, such compounds count 4000.

Myth: Teeth darken and are covered with dark-yellow spots thanks to nicotine.

Fact: Nicotine has nothing to do with it. Well-known tar that is contained in tobacco smoke stains dental enamel and is the reason of skin's color change.

Myth: Medicines that contain nicotine help to quit smoking and deliver from quitting tortures.

Fact: Medicines that contain nicotine don't help with anything. But nicotine entrance in organism continues and prevents organism from clearing in total forth.

To quit smoking and replace nicotine with different elements is the same thing as to treat alcoholic with alcohol or drug addict with drugs. As it is said, there is no sense.

Myth: If smoking light cigarettes the harm from cigarettes lowers.

Fact: One of the most powerful delusions. Many smokers change over to lights cigarettes with hope that will do less harm to themselves. But they don't take into account that when smoking lights cigarettes they make deeper inhaling and smoke couples of cigarettes at once. As result dose of nicotine even becomes bigger than while smoking usual cigarettes.